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     Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique Post Number: 13968 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: |
So now what? Sittin around, waiting for my 76th birthday on August 18th. Trying to figure out a reason to stay alive. I've reached the conclusion, I've outgrown the world. Nothing impresses me any more; everything seems shallow to me. I have all but given up on the younger generation, and have lost patience with the baby boomers. I'm easily bored, everything gets on my nerves, and even books don't command my interest the way they used to.  Over the years, I've delved into a lot of religions and philosophies and the one that I have related to the most is Buddhism because it teaches among other things, how destructive the ego is. Only when a person transcends the need to be highly valued by others and is liberated from the total immersion of self love can the spirit transcend the wordly and merge with the universal intelligence from whence it sprung. Now, if I could just faithfully practice these teachings, and remind myself that "To a rain drop, joy is entering the river." Buddhism also teaches that there is no such things as the present since it's just the past waiting to happen. Living in the moment has its advantages. We are on a collision course with the future. Paradoxes.  ACIM, one of the new age religions I explored would seem to confirm Edgar Allen Poe's assertion that "all that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream." All of which is why I find myself believing that the hidden wisdom in the familiar old round song bears contemplation. gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream. Then there's the abstraction of Time; such a fascination concept. Growth is what Time becomes. Seems like the century just turned and we are now on the threshold of its firsr decade. The newborn granddaughter I held in my arms a blink of the eye ago, is suddenly wearing a "tweens" bra. Memories, like Time, are also fascinating. You can re-live the past on the screen of your imagination inside the auditorium of your skull. Memories allow you to become a time traveler. Music is also magic and can also transport you back in time, - shift you into another dimension. The best things in life are, indeed, free. Life is, of course, a mystery, and solving it has become too much of an enigmatic riddle for me. Yeah, yeah, I know. Life is to be cherished and clung to. Waking up every day is a blessing. But sleep is also a blessing. So how bad can eternal rest be??? After all, "Life is a journey which is homeward bound." Finally, Jimi Hendrix's ethereal lyrics certainly strike a note with me. Lately things don't look the same, Feeling funny, Don't know why. Scuse me while I Kiss the sky!  Like I said folks, slow day... | ||
| Carey AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Carey Post Number: 2101 Registered: 05-2004 Rating: |
IMO, that was probably your best post in the last 7yrs. IMO, highlights: "Only when a person transcends the need to be highly valued by others and is liberated from the total immersion of self love can the spirit transcend the wordly and merge with the universal intelligence from whence it sprung" "Life is a journey which is homeward bound." "even books don't command my interest the way they used to" "The best things in life are, indeed, free" Why do we have to wait so long to figure that out? | ||
| Cynique "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Cynique Post Number: 13970 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: |
In an attempt to give a semblance of mellowing with age, struggling to shed my cantankerous cloak, I will simply say, "thank you, Carey." | ||
| Carey AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Carey Post Number: 2102 Registered: 05-2004 Rating: N/A |
Cynique, sometimes I do guest posts. Your post is deep. I've often said, "what leaves the heart, will find anothers". With you permission, I'd like to highlight your post at my blog. I haven't decided how I'd set it up but I am thinking along the lines of "unpretentious wisdom - it's free". Other members of Thumpers Corner have seen their words on the front page of my blog, I hope you join that list. I am just a little guy in the big blogsphere -- I blog from the cheap seats but someone will hear your words and that's a good thang. Oh, I do use a spellcheck over there :-). So hopefully we'll represent TC's in a good way. | ||
| Chrishayden "Cyniquian" Level Poster Username: Chrishayden Post Number: 8111 Registered: 03-2004 Rating: |
I TOLD y'all she was the Queen of the Blues! | ||
| Yvettep AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Yvettep Post Number: 3610 Registered: 01-2005 Rating: N/A |
Cynique, your post reminds me of something I think you'll appreciate. My husband is a big fan of a sports show on TV where there is this one commentator who always has little witty phrases written on a white board in back of him. One of his phrases today said: "There will be a seminar on time travel two weeks ago." LOL | ||
| Troy AALBC .com Platinum Poster Username: Troy Post Number: 1894 Registered: 01-2004 Rating: N/A |
That was indeed deep. There was a lot of meat in that post, a lot to consider and to reflect upon. Thanks Cynique. | ||
| Bleekindigo Regular Poster Username: Bleekindigo Post Number: 224 Registered: 06-2004 Rating: |
Cynique! Cynique! Stop minglin' round' in my thoughts without permission!! You had me at "So now what? Sittin around waiting for my 76th birthday on August 18th." I have been "so now whatin" myself as I sit around waiting myself... for my 36th birthday on November 18th. I too have outgrown the world. Well, not really, I am sure. But it feels like-outgrown. What it really is, I am sure, is that I am feeling conquered by her. I am not impressed. And, well...I should be. I too have all but given up on the younger generation and well...I am somewhat, a part of that younger generation. I have just all together lost patience. Easily bored, Nerves are shattered. Books? Just an escape. They weren't always. "So now what?" Resonating post. Bleek- |
